This week of my internship was amazing!! I went on the scholastic expeditions trip to the channel islands and had a blast. Both full days we were anchored at the islands we had rotations of kayaking, snorkeling, and invertebrate ID. The second day we were there the group went...
This was an exciting week for my internship as I was finally able to handle the rats being used for research. Most of what the interns in the lab (including me) do is transfer rats from their home cages to self-administration chambers and back, while...
This week was more about preparing machines for the campaign in Alamosa called CloudMap. Oklahoma State University Research Institute is sending a team of people to Colorado all with different jobs to study wind and weather data coming off a mountain. My week went well...
[caption id="attachment_9113" align="alignleft" width="225"] Smithsonian Welcome Center[/caption] I am officially half way through my internship and this week things at the Rodham Institute have started to pick up. I started off the week by going to the hospital and rounding with residents on the general medicine...
My name is Emmanuel Ledesma and I am one of the interns from Olathe High School. Myself and Tyler, another Pinhead Intern, are working with the Amaro Lab at the University of California, San Diego(UCSD). My journey started on Sunday, June 24, as I flew...
My name is Carlos Rodriguez. I’m from Montrose High School. My internship is at UCSD in La Jolla, San Diego California. I’m in a research program called ENLACE. I arrived San Diego on Sunday June 24th. I checked in and got my keys for of my...
The first week in San Diego Califonia has been both a thrilling one and a challenging one. The first week of my internship at the UCSD BioChemCore has been a boot camp of learning how to code in various different coding languages such as python and...
The second week of my internship was very interesting as I had the opportunity to do work that was quite different from the molecular work I did last week. Having completed two courses regarding humane animal experimentation and animal handling, I was able to touch...
I am doing my Pinhead Internship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This week, my main task was getting started on a Python program that would take data from the satellites and make it available to read in...
And just like that, week two is over! This week was a little more mellow than last week, but by no means less exciting. [caption id="attachment_9174" align="alignleft" width="141"] The anemometer I worked with[/caption] On Monday, I worked with an anemometer and got it reading correctly for a...
I had another fabulous week here at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center and I think I am finally staring to get the hang of things. A typical work day for me is helping in the husbandry, acting as a gallery interpreter, or helping with...
Hey guys! So I just got done with week two at Frazier Rehab and I love it here I can't wait to tell you all about it! [caption id="attachment_9138" align="alignleft" width="225"] Standing frame used In morning training sessions[/caption] So for this past week I've been starting my...
The second week of my internship was a blast. Our Arduino shields and Xbee communication devices were delivered. We also got 5 digital temperature sensors in. This week we have been setting up our temperature sensor network and making sure everything is functioning properly. This...
Hello once again! I have to say my second week at the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center has been equally exciting, if not more so, than the first. We started off the week with a pretty relaxed day where I got to get some...
Hello again! During my second week at HIMB I focused primarily on my experiment regarding multi species coral growth. The process for all three of my experiments is similar, rigorous, time consuming and must be very precise. This week we epoxied and mounted all of...